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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does the author describe the energy crisis and the year-round daylight savings it entailed in Chapter 5?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1976.
(d) 1974.

2. Who is the male leading role in the play where the author's parents met?
(a) Petruchio.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Mr. Darcy.
(d) Macbeth.

3. The author says of her father in Chapter 1, "He used his skillful artifice not to make things, but to make things appear to be" what?
(a) "Beautiful."
(b) "Pristine."
(c) "What they were not."
(d) "Historical."

4. What is the title of Chapter 5?
(a) "The Antihero's Journey."
(b) "The Canary-Colored Caravan of Death."
(c) "A Walk in the Woods."
(d) "Sunday Morning."

5. At what time of the day does Bruce Bechdel's obituary cite him as dying?
(a) 11:10 a.m.
(b) 12:45 p.m.
(c) 8:45 a.m.
(d) 9:30 p.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the "cultured, dissipated, and penniless European art collector" that the heroine marries in The Portrait of a Lady?

2. Where was the author in Europe when she convinced her parents for the right to trade a tank suit for shorts at the beach?

3. Where did Bruce Bechdel marry his wife?

4. The title of Chapter 2: "A Happy Death," alludes to a novel written by what author?

5. How did F. Scott Fitzgerald die?

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